Thursday, August 26, 2010

Svetlana Medvedeva visits Cannes church where Great Duke Nikolay Romanov is buried

Paris, August 26, Interfax - The Russian President's spouse Svetlana Medvedeva, who came to Cannes in view of the Russian Art Festival, visited local church of Archangel Michael.

It was built in 1894 on donations of Russian community and is one of the oldest Russian Orthodox churches in France.

Medvedeva went down to the crypt where chief commander of Russian Army in World War I Great Duke Nikolay Nikolayevich, elder of Romanovs emigrated from Russia, is buried.


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